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* Announce the creation of the release tag to the nss-dev mailing list. | * Announce the creation of the release tag to the nss-dev mailing list. | ||
* We'll use the hg archive command to create release tar archives. (Note we still use old gzip for maximum compatibility with consumers.) We'll use an additional directory level, that's why we require the --prefix parameter. Run the command from within the top nss directory. We assume you haven't made any changes to your local tree yet, after you created the release tag. (That's why we don't need the --rev argument.) In the following command, use the correct version number in both places. | * We'll use the hg archive command to create release tar archives. (Note we still use old gzip for maximum compatibility with consumers.) We'll use an additional directory level, that's why we require the --prefix parameter. Run the command from within the top nss directory. We assume you haven't made any changes to your local tree yet, after you created the release tag. (That's why we don't need the --rev argument.) In the following command, use the correct version number in both places. | ||
hg archive --prefix=nss-3.15.1/nss ../nss-3.15.1.tar.gz -X ".hgtags" | hg archive -r NSS_3_15_1_RTM --prefix=nss-3.15.1/nss ../nss-3.15.1.tar.gz -X ".hgtags" | ||
* Multiple consuming projects have asked us to provide combined tar archives that contain both NSS and the corresponding minimum NSPR version that it requires. Get the respective NSPR version, for example by downloading the published release. | * Multiple consuming projects have asked us to provide combined tar archives that contain both NSS and the corresponding minimum NSPR version that it requires. Get the respective NSPR version, for example by downloading the published release. | ||
* The NSPR release archive will contain a directory hierarchy like nspr-4.10/nspr. Extract it, and move the nspr subdirectory to the nss-3.15.1 directory. As a result, the nss-3.15.1 directory should contain two subdirectories: nss and nspr | * The NSPR release archive will contain a directory hierarchy like nspr-4.10/nspr. Extract it, and move the nspr subdirectory to the nss-3.15.1 directory. As a result, the nss-3.15.1 directory should contain two subdirectories: nss and nspr | ||